Smith v Abraham rematch

[Rantcatrat]

Can Smith beat Arthur Abraham or is it just a bridge too far? David Price back from injury on the undercard too.

He gave it all he had last time but came up short in a fight imo that was pretty tough to call. The cards were for lack of a better term a joke. Sadly as was pretty apparent by the purchased cards last time he may not be able to win a points dec against the turtle in his homeland unless he makes it impossible to ignore.

It may be a paper belt but thats no different then 80% of the other paper pirates sailing around the divisions. Its designed that way. Not his fault.

By the way, sure AA is the weakest title holder, but there's not that wide of a gap between AA and Tony Dirrell. AA-Sturm is a big fight in Germany too.

[Beanz]

Can Smith beat Arthur Abraham or is it just a bridge too far? David Price back from injury on the undercard too.

He gave it all he had last time but came up short in a fight imo that was pretty tough to call. The cards were for lack of a better term a joke. Sadly as was pretty apparent by the purchased cards last time he may not be able to win a points dec against the turtle in his homeland unless he makes it impossible to ignore.

It may be a paper belt but thats no different then 80% of the other paper pirates sailing around the divisions. Its designed that way. Not his fault.

By the way, sure AA is the weakest title holder, but there's not that wide of a gap between AA and Tony Dirrell. AA-Sturm is a big fight in Germany too.

Abraham is a very lucky guy. He has had a lot of dodgy decisions go his way. The scoring was a disgrace but not so much the result last time. He is massively overrated and most people can't wait to see him retire. Abraham is not a good advert for boxing.

[smashup]

Eubank snr has been "Advising" Smith lately as Eubank Jnr has been training at the Gallagher Gym and sparring with Smith.

He re watched the first fight and noticed that Smiths best rounds were 9 and 10 when he threw more jabs than any other rounds.

Smith needs to have more output from the off and jump all over Abraham and imo go for the KO early and/or just fucking graft every second and seriously test Abrahams engine (i don't think he can fight at pace anymore and Smith needs to expose that relentlessly).

But we all know that in reality Smith needs the KO.

Hope he does it as i like Smith as a person and a fighter.

[GAME]

Paul won't be listening to Eubanks advice after he's seen what happend vs BJS

Arthur will on Saturday because he has the ability to raise his game. We saw vs Steglitz in the rubber match Arthur might be lazy at times and that comes with 20+ title defences and years at top level but when he needs to he can get serious and last time he may have been caught napping. He's motivated in this fight for a money spinner with sturm in the summer so he'll be ready

Smith may have made adjustments & be improved from last time. It'll make it a good fight to watch but he won't win the exchanges that matter and if he tries to he will be playing into Arthur's hands. Abraham 118-112

[smashup]

Paul won't be listening to Eubanks advice after he's seen what happend vs BJS

Arthur will on Saturday because he has the ability to raise his game. We saw vs Steglitz in the rubber match Arthur might be lazy at times and that comes with 20+ title defences and years at top level but when he needs to he can get serious and last time he may have been caught napping. He's motivated in this fight for a money spinner with sturm in the summer so he'll be ready

Smith may have made adjustments & be improved from last time. It'll make it a good fight to watch but he won't win the exchanges that matter and if he tries to he will be playing into Arthur's hands. Abraham 118-112

So you see it as a draw then yeah?

I think Smith can win this and will do

[ruthless rocco]

Any idea how long from now this fight is going to start?

[Master]

Any idea how long from now this fight is going to start?

4 hours

[Fenster]

Price needs to start launching that right hand

[La Cucaracha]

Abraham knocks Smith out

[Fenster]

The notion that you can't win a decision in Germany is complete and utter nonsense.

[Memphis]

Smith's body attack hurt AA last time but there wasn't enough of it, he was shit scared of leaving any room to be clouted. Understandable.


Smith drops a decision again or gets stopped late for me.

[TigerFan]

I thought Abraham won the first fight...albeit the scores were too wide.

A part of me wants Smith to win...just so there's no Abraham-Stieglitz 4

[brocktonblockbust]

Smith's body attack hurt AA last time but there wasn't enough of it, he was shit scared of leaving any room to be clouted. Understandable.


Smith drops a decision again or gets stopped late for me.

yes Smith was afraid to pull the trigger all the way in the last fight and that may have cost him. I believe he will be more aggressive this time and throw caution to the wind and that is why Arthur will knock his ass out by the 8th round

[Jimanuel Boogustus]

If Smith sees this as 'last chance saloon' and really puts himself in line to do all the right things then he'll win because really I feel the fight was his to loose last time. He just needed a bit more variation in his punches (more with up and down) and he needs to move when AA punches, take his punches away and walk him on to shots. Keep the fight long.

Anybody who beat AA, kept the fight long.

[Vendettos]

Smith did enough to deserve the respect of a close decision.

The scoring was a joke!

I hope he can start a bit faster this time.